{"product_id":"9781463497125","title":"ULTIMATE SEVERANCE","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlim-flam artists, captains of industry, Wall Street piranhas, impatient mobsters, spinmeisters and assorted mountebanks abound in \u003ci\u003eUltimate Severance, \u003c\/i\u003ea highly satirical and imaginative novel that provides a public relations guidebook to the reality of spin and humbuggery in the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Century.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith the end of the War on Terror through the accidental launch of new “lite’n kleen” nukes, a culture of euphoria, ethical and social impairment and calls for numerous peace dividends is again in fashion.  This is clearly an environment of business opportunity for financially-bleeding Trotter Pugg Mitchell, a world PR giant, and its clients such as Old Masters Originals, a maker of “limited edition” reproduction art. And when the agency teams up with Mob Boss Joey Lasagna to abet dicey corporate megamergers, they provide Wall Street raiders with a new quick-fix ultimate severance package: an innovative Corporate Governance Program powered by Trotter’s new “language of happiness.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCash flow gushes.  Money is well laundered. Trotter President Marvin Runnymede sets up a European “multi-use facility” in a 500-year old chateau in Provence; plans to sell “Instant PR Agency” franchises to Third World countries, and hires has-been “Greats” to promote dubious products and ventures.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut fortune’s smile becomes a sardonic grin. So many stubborn CEOs undergo fatal retirements in colorful circumstances around the world that a powerful US Senator decides to advance his presidential ambitions with the usual TV-circus hearings. Well-cooked dishes of suspicion, buncombe and open doubt are served to the media.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the ensuing rush for strategic exits, winners and losers fake out, promote and wound each other in surprising ways; the \u003ci\u003efaux rond\u003c\/i\u003e wheels of justice grind and clank, and the “language of happiness” covers all.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172129521904,"sku":"9781463497125","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781463497125_p0.jpg?v=1763682220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781463497125","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}